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Post by Claw Jaw on Dec 28, 2007 21:48:02 GMT -5
Claw Jaw didn't look at Swerve or Kup when they begin fighting, however he tool a deliberate step away from them, just to increase the chance he isn't caught in any crossfire.
"Huh... A walking plant" Claw Jaw said, sounding slightly bemused. "All the plants I have seen are... Either food or a hiding place for fish". He raised an arm to his chin, thinking. "Quite tasty fish at that" he adds, his chest-jaws opening slightly.
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Post by Nightbeat on Dec 28, 2007 23:17:42 GMT -5
Nightbeat just shakes his head after watching Claw Jaw and Botanica's conversation for a while.
"Transformers with little men in their heads. Transformers with little men in their guns. Transformers with funky organic shells. Transformers with little men in their engines. Transformers the size of little men. Transformers with squishy bits. Transformers with metal squishy bits who turn into cockamamie plants..."
He shakes his head again. "What happened to the good old days where the worst thing that could happen was that a lamp post might turn out to be Soundwave?"
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Post by Shanodin on Dec 29, 2007 2:23:47 GMT -5
Botanica keeps her eyes on the very large, perturbed Dinobot when she answers Kup, rather matter-of-factly, "Actually the Dogwoods are rather docile, if you remember to give them a good scritching every so often. The Tiger Lilies, now, there's a plant to be wary of." A slightly feral smile plays across her lip, "But I get your meaning."
"Which is, Claw Jaw, that on the planet where I gained my original alt mode, the plants were the ones that did the eating." She tilts her head as she considers Grimlock, "But you'd be a bit much for even the Laburnum Zyla to fell, I think."
She shrugs, "I was only teasing you. I thought it was fairly obvious."
She shifts her position a bit so that she can watch all three at once. None of them have actually stepped into her ring yet, but it pays to be wary. Especially considering that Gimlock at least could break her beyond repair if he actually gets his hands on her. At Nightbeat's grumbling, she fixes the detective with a glare.
"There are far worse fates to be had than any you just named. Worse than death, for that matter."
Like say, having your spark eaten by a megalomaniac.
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Post by SceneMod on Dec 29, 2007 2:41:27 GMT -5
OOC: Kup and Swerve have already pulled off into another thread for their battle, so it is now Claw Jaw's turn.
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Post by Grimlock on Dec 29, 2007 9:49:25 GMT -5
OOC: Funny, I thought it was Grimlock's turn...if not, this can be removed later. ----------
Grimlock head tilts, then glances aside. "...me Grimlock no do good with teasing" he says rather stiffly. It's one of those trickier social things that continually perplex the Dinobot as to the varying uses. There's playful teasing, and there's mean teasing, and Grimlock finds it difficult to discern between the two.
Grimlock rises to his feet, looking back and forth between those conversing, and it seems battle is postponed for jabbering. Gurrr.
Grimlock grows impatient!
And he declares it: "Me Grimlock think you all talk too much! This training field, not break room!" And after noting that, he plods on over into the ring with Botanica. "Me Grimlock fight all three of you", he challenges with a waving motion. "Me even make it fair" he adds, unsubspacing his launcher, sword, and stun riffle, and setting them outside the ring, out of easy reach. "Me not use weapons. Me no need weapon for training."
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Post by SceneMod on Dec 29, 2007 19:54:36 GMT -5
It is at this point that the communications tower near base is activated, causing images to form in the sky overhead. See the Two Towers thread for full details.
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Post by Claw Jaw on Dec 29, 2007 21:10:13 GMT -5
Claw Jaw looked at Grimlock, and then looked at the two near him. "Well then, I suppose we should...". Claw Jaw cuts himself off, looking upwards at the images.
Claw Jaw doesn't know why, but when the massive orange planetoid goes past, he fills a chill go right through his processors. Claw Jaw had considered himself to be at the top of the food chain, but that thing could tear apart entire planets to get food...
"Hmm... Interesting..." Claw Jaw says, worry in his voice, as he stares upwards. "A predator planet..."
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Post by Nightbeat on Dec 30, 2007 0:16:08 GMT -5
Nightbeat's about to fire off a retort at the botanical skirt when the show in the sky goes off.
"Sweet Primus...! I do believe in Unicrons, I do!"
Now he understands just why the Matrix was so vital. Surely, only the Autobot's sacred life force could possibly affect such a giant. Even if all the Transformers, Autobot, Decepticon, Neutral, and Empty, scatted across the universe, were to reunite, there was no way they had even a fraction of the firepower necessary to combat a being that could rend planets apart.
And lucky him, he was the one who shot Thunderwing and the Matrix into the depths of space. If he ever got back... they'd have to find it again. And maybe he could learn to live with dooming them all.
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Post by Shanodin on Dec 30, 2007 2:07:02 GMT -5
Botanica quirks an eyebrow at Grimlock as he entered her ring. This...might go badly. She tries to remember what the files had on Gimlock, but this one seems...different, from the one from her history. Immature, perhaps?
A commotion off to the side catches her attention and she turns just in time to see Kup dumping Swerve in the river. She turns back to the group, a puzzled expression on her face.
"Is that nor- oh, my."
She gazes in wonder at the very vivid projection overhead. The wonder turns to fear, and she reaches out her hands as if to ward off the vision. This was one piece of history that was not forgotten.
"No, Primus preserve us, not the darkness that devours all. It cannot be here as well."
She shrinks, wilts even, as the transmission begins to loop again, and her vines dig into the soil, seeking support and comfort.
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Post by Grimlock on Dec 30, 2007 8:03:47 GMT -5
Aw, don't worry, Botanica. Grimlock knows to play gently. However, he does look over at Kup and Swerve at the splash, and can't help a laugh. Hee hee hee! Swerve go splash!
That laugh gets cut off by the recording int he sky. Grimlock grows...confused. "...why him back? We destroyed him!" Grimlock's spouting is rhetorical, for the most part. "No make sense...No make sense!" The repetition is bellowed as the Dinobot stoops down enough to grab his blaster off the ground, and shoves it up at the sky. The trigger is pulled as fast as he can muster, sending blast after blast of stunner laser fire up at the projection in attempt to get rid of it.
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Post by Claw Jaw on Dec 31, 2007 1:29:48 GMT -5
Claw Jaw folds his arms over his chest, his chest-jaws chittering. "They are merely... Images. He isn't here, it is... Of the past. Look how it repeats itself...". Claw Jaw then raises an arm to his chin. "It is... Most curious even so..."
Claw Jaw turns to the others "What... Was that planet?" he asks, curiosity evident.
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Post by Nightbeat on Dec 31, 2007 1:35:37 GMT -5
"Unicron," Nightbeat says. "Planet-munching granddaddy of all things nasty. Enemy of Primus, creator of the Transformers in our neck of the woods."
How he manages to say something so ludicrous with a straight face, we'll never know.
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Post by Shanodin on Dec 31, 2007 13:41:14 GMT -5
"Images or not not, it is still disturbing."
Botanica recovers fairly quickly all told. She offers her assistance on radio, but shortly afterwards the images begin to dissipate. .
"That was a most unpleasant answer to the question of why the planet was abandoned," she crosses her arms, her hands grasping her upper arms and she shivers. "Our ancestors defeated the Chaos Bringer, Claw Jaw. That was one bit of history that our leaders found impossible to repress. I am surprised you do not know of it."
"Of course, one could question if such a force could every be truly defeated or contained. A touch of chaos resides in every living thing, after all."
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Post by Grimlock on Jan 1, 2008 2:12:02 GMT -5
After it fades, Grimlock lowers his gun, the barrels smoking very faintly from the amount he'd fired. He tosses the weapon aside, grumbling. "Him supposed to be dead. Rodimus killed him. Him GONE!"
...yeah, for a bit, Grimlock's forgotten about the whole time-and-universe displacement thing.
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Post by Claw Jaw on Jan 1, 2008 10:01:22 GMT -5
Claw Jaw nods, and then turns to Botanica. "Upon awakening from my stasis pod I suffered... Damage to my logic circuits, which took a while to... Repair" he explains.
Without turning, he said to Grimlock. "It is an... Image. It could have... happened before Rodimus killed him, for all we know"
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